Why does Republican Todd Kincannon still have a state job?

February 25-2014

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Todd Kincannon is the Chairman of the Simpsonville Election Commission and a former GOP state leader, last year tweeted that transgender people should be put in camps, tweeted the super bowl sucked worse than Trayvon Martin trying to score some crack and allegedly tweeted someone a picture of his Anthony Wiener. Tune in Live at Five today to Occupy The Microphone as they try to make sense of the senseless.

NC NAACP and Conservative Art Pope square off

Yesterday Rev. William Barber of the NC NAACP squared off in Raleigh with Art Pope the budget director of NC Republican governor Pat McCrory. Pope is also a business man who has spent millions of dollars to push a Conservative agenda in the state including the new VOTER ID law. Tune in to this story and more on Occupy The Microphone today Live at Five!

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Atlanta Braves and Cobb County GOP on Tea Party Enemies List

Tea Party members in South Carolina are angry about a sweet tax deal given to the Atlanta Braves to move from Turner Field in Atlanta to build a new stadium in Cobb county. It was not liberals the Cobb county Tea Partiers were angry with, its the GOP. Tune in this news and more on Occupy The Microphone Live at Five Eastern!

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Republican who voted to drug test SNAP recipients has a drug problem

Henry 'Trey' Radel, a Florida Republican who voted to drug test people receiving government funded food assistance appeared in a DC criminal court today and plead guilty to Misdemeanor Cocaine Possession. The congressman was busted in a drug sting that was targeting a drug trafficking organization in the Washington, DC area. Speaking of Congress, with little media attention, the Affordable Care Act website has suffered what has been called a "handful" of hacking attacks prompting some to question who are behind the attacks and if all attacks are being reported or only those deemed significant like Denial of Service attacks that can cause a website to crash. Tune in for these stories and more on Occupy The Microphone!
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GOP official admits voter suppression is the intent of Voter ID laws

When radical Republican leaders pushed an anti-voter agenda in North Carolina people cried out in protest. Now a leader of the Tarheel GOP has admitted on late night TV that kicking Black folks off the voter rolls was the plan all along. What will happen now that the cat is out of the bag?

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Senators proposing "real" reforms to NSA

Three Democrats and one Republican in the US Senate have introduced legislation to get control over the NSA. Congressional hearings begin today on a proposal the senators promise will not be "cosmetic" reform, but offer real protections to the US. Brazil? Not so much.

The Republican leadership in Congress has threatened to bring the national political process to a halt in an "I'll hold my breath until I am blue" move over funding the Afordable Care Act. Just around the corner is the "debate" over raising the national debt ceiling. Threatening a government shutdown, some Republican leaders seem prepared to run us over an economic cliff to score points. Is this what we need from Congress?

Finally, with close to a hundred billion dollars a month being poured into banks and corporate profits as big as they have ever been, it seems impossible to imagine a different economic future. The way we are headed we may have almost no control over our food, jobs, money supply or much of anything else. Even projects we may like, such as solar power projects, can turn into a nightmare because they are so big. Is it actually possible to have an economy "too big to fail", or are we headed for more economic hard times?

Will JP Morgan bankers be jailed for financial crimes?

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The FBI may bring criminal charges against individuals at banking giant JP Morgan Chase for manipulating energy trades that amount to stealing from consumers. U.S. Attorney Preet Bhararais said to be focusing on conduct outlined last month in the bank’s $410 million civil settlement with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The Justice Department is working with the FBI and the bank is also being looked at for possible criminal charges for its actions leading up to the global financials crisis.

A Casper College teacher who possibly lost a teaching job because he ran for Congress seeking to unseat Republican incumbent Cynthia Lummis left the Democratic Party and has joined the Green Party in Wyoming. Chris Henrichsen believes the current political system is broken and he does not believe the Democrats will make the radical changes that need to be made because they benefit from the system as is. Henrichsen will join us on Occupy The Microphone today.

The Department of Justice is seeking once again to protect the former administration from being held accountable for alleged war crimes and other misdeeds. War Is A Crime reports, “In court papers filed today (PDF), the United States Department of Justice requested that George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and Paul Wolfowitz be granted procedural immunity in a case alleging that they planned and waged the Iraq War in violation of international law.”

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